Category Archives: Devotions

General Overseer

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Genesis 40:5-19

 

Let this be constantly active in all your actions, statements, comings and goings, that God alone is your general overseer. It is not enough that you acknowledge this but that it is written all over your conduct and appearance and in all of your communication. The main reason for this point of remembrance is to let God know that you are giving Him His due attention. He is a jealous God. If the antidote for a jealous God is attention, then your full attention belongs unto God. Giving Him your attention in all things should be demonstrated in the way you live your life. Exodus 34:14, ÒFor you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God.Ó Indeed, He is a jealous God because His word says so and His word is true. Many in the Bible, who gave God the attention He deserves, received His backing in return. Joseph is an example of one who gave God attention in all areas of his life. JosephÕs response when he interpreted the dreams of PharaohÕs butler and baker is an example to be emulated by every believer. Despite JosephÕs difficult situation, he did not take anything away from His God. Genesis 40:8, ÒAnd they said to him, we each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. So Joseph said to them, do not interpretations come from God? Tell them to me, please.Ó What a response! Joseph who had been privileged in interpreting dreams gave God all the glory. He did not brag about interpreting, but instead, acknowledged publicly that interpretation comes from God. He knew and recognized his general overseer. God who is the God of the living heard and saw all that was taking place. He responded by giving Joseph the ability to understand and interpret the dreams in His name. Let God arise and be your general overseer.

The Third Day

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Genesis 40:20-23

 

It does not matter what, how long, or where you have been kept down, it is certain that when your third day comes, you will rise. Pray for your third day and it will prevail. When Pharaoh became angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker, he sent them to prison (Genesis 40:2). There was no indication of what the offense was, but the placement was from chief to prison. Have you at anytime felt that it is over? You have lost a ground that have held you high in the community or among colleagues. It is clear that there will be no way for you to get back to your previous position. Prison is the least expected place in your journey of life because your entire walk has been in abiding with the law of the land. Prison, confinement, hindrance or denial could have come in a way or any form to deny and reduce you where you have always been elevated. A butler in PharaohÕs palace descended from the position of chief to prison. The story is easy to read but not easy to live. There is always a way out for every child of God whose righteousness is in Christ Jesus. The only way out is in prayer. The Bible declared that the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>5:16). Take it to the Lord in prayer that your third day will arrive. The butlerÕs third day arrived and prison life was history. Genesis 40:20, ÒNow it came to pass on the third day, which was PharaohÕs birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and chief baker among his servants. Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he placed the cup in PharaohÕs hand.Ó  God will restore you and you shall regain all that has been lost in multiple folds in Jesus name.   

Leprosy Cease

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Luke 7:11-19

 

Leprosy, particularly during Bible times, was a highly contagious disease that kept the infected person separated from family and friends. Leprosy is often used metaphorically in the Bible as an illustration of sin because sin is contagious and destructive and it leads to separation. Can you imagine yourself being in a position that keeps you from going wherever you choose to go? Are you in a situation by law or by affliction that is restraining your movement? Think of something in your life that is keeping you from moving closer to reaching Jesus for your deliverance or breakthrough. In your distance, in your standing afar off from Jesus, if you will only lift your voice and call for mercy, Jesus will respond to you. There is no distance or barrier for Jesus to reach out to you. Luke 17: 12-14, ÒThen as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, ÒJesus, Master, have mercy on us!Ó 14 So when He saw them, He said to them, ÒGo, show yourselves to the priests. And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.Ó The ten lepers were far off when they lifted their voices and cried out to Jesus for help. What is it that is stopping you from lifting your voice to Him? Ignore doubt; Jesus is still the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Jesus saw the lepers and spoke deliverance into their lives. Jesus, who was, who is and who will always be, will see you in your affliction and will speak to it and address it just as He did with the ten lepers. Consider this day as your day of deliverance and deliverance will be rendered unto you in the name of Jesus.

Help

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Psalm 121

 

You have been looking for help from the wrong sources for a long time. Your thinking has been limited. Your help will not come from where you look; it will not come from your own thinking. Confirmed by God as the king for the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel, Saul began to look and think of help from the people that were surrounding him. Saul was to fight the Philistines, but he could not wait for SamuelÕs role to carry out the burnt offering. Saul took the law of God into his own hands by presenting the offering. This was limited only to the priesthood. Are you planning to take the law into your hands? This is not from God. The fact that you cannot see right ahead of you, does not mean that your Samuel is not nearby. At SamuelÕs arrival, he confronted Saul for presenting the offering. 1Samuel 13:11-12, Ò11 And Samuel said, ÒWhat have you done?Ó Saul said, ÒWhen I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, 12 then I said, ÔThe Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.Õ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.Ó You know what God can do. You know what He has done. You also know what He is doing. Waiting for God will not make you a loser. God is faithful. He cannot be otherwise. We have no excuse that will stand before Him. Think of it; He alone has brought you this far, and He will not leave you nor forsake you. Trust in Him. Do not turn from His ways. Are you wondering where your help will come from? Psalm121:1-2, Ò1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.Ó Your help will surely come. It will never be too late when you wait for GodÕs visitation. Saul could not wait, and he lost all sight of GodÕs calling. Lift up your eyes to the Lord who has His dwelling place in Zion.

Lame

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Acts 3

 

Lameness is when movement is disabled, difficult, or impossible. A man that has been lamed in any area of life is in a good position to share the experience. It is absolutely certain that no man would love to be in any position of lameness concerning any issue of life. The lame man the Peter healed at the temple has been in that situation since birth. So many are actually lame and do not know it. They have been lame ever since they were in the motherÕs womb because of generational curses. Are you having a ÒlameÓ experience in any area of your life? Are you at the right location and the right time of receiving your deliverance? If you can identify your location and time then your situation is half-solved. The lame man was there at the gate of the temple at the hour of prayer. When he saw Peter and John, he asked for alms, but being the hour of prayer, Peter and John had more to offer him. Acts 3:4-5, ÒAnd fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ÔLook at us.Õ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.Ó In your lameness, you have been inside, not outside, of the temple so many times yet you have never received. If you will begin to come with attention, expecting manifestation, your history will be changed. Peter gave the reason why the lame man was able to receive. Acts 3:16, ÒAnd His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.Ó If you will give attention with expectation, the faith which comes through Him will deliver you from your lameness.